MVC ActionLink adds VS solution name to url

Question

For some reason when I run my project locally, everything works just fine. When I publish my site live to my shared hosting server, the actionlink causes links to come out as

http// www.mydomain.com/MySolutionName/Account.aspx/LogOn

when it should be

http// www.mydomain.com/Account.aspx/LogOn

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I thought that this was an option under the Publish screen (or maybe under the Project settings screen). I'm running on my MacBook so I can't confirm. Have you checked there to see?

Can you show some of the ActionLink code that you're talking about...?

Answer 2

Check whether you published to a virtual directory named MySolutionName under the root of the web site. If you did, then this is expected behavior.

Answer 3

(BTW: I have no idea why this site won't let me log back in. I never got an OpenID when I put in my new user info, wtf?)

I publish to a folder on my desktop and then upload via FTP. On my host I set the folder as an application directory since it's a subfolder of my root.

Root ./MySite ./MyOtherSite

Each folder is it's own application directory where I put different sites. There are no virtual directories that I know of. Since I cant see the server config, i can't be sure of that statement.